CUI – Native UI components for C

(yappologistic.github.io)

55 points | by hilti 1 hour ago

13 comments

  • nepthar 15 minutes ago
    Okay, so this is cool, but also vibecoded by someone who just does frontend. I totally support AI development, but the first commit was 4 days ago and it's entirely written by claude. The UI looks like "the style that that AI comes up with" turned into a C framework.

    I don't want to discourage this kind of experimentation, but I also question how much of the last 20+ years of UI and C knowledge was not used in the construction of this project. Also, do I want to build a kanban board in C? Unsure.

    Just take care when evaluating this for actual usage.

    • mgdev 10 minutes ago
      Some projects are worth it just for the rebrand.
  • Luke2642 0 minutes ago
    Looks great, but node editor is janky on mobile.
  • huhtenberg 1 minute ago
    [delayed]
  • piker 31 minutes ago
    C increasingly makes sense for compile times if you can have a separate Fable pass on memory safety, etc.
    • nateb2022 24 minutes ago
      Assembly is increasingly making sense for compile times if you can have a separate Fable pass on code correctness, etc.
      • piker 14 minutes ago
        I think you’re kidding, but wouldn’t you have to maintain different code bases for each platform? C compiler gets you everywhere and WASM.
        • genxy 0 minutes ago
          Once you have Wasm, it gets you everywhere and the best past to Wasm is Rust.
        • raphlinus 7 minutes ago
          Yes, and? As the cost of code generation approaches zero, this starts to make more sense, especially if you do have mechanisms in place to ensure safety and correctness.

          I did an experiment a couple weeks ago of having Opus 5.5 translate an MP3 decoder from Rust into Cortex-M33 assembly language, both raw asm and symbolasm. The code was 3x smaller and ~1.5x faster than Rust -O3. These seem like gains that are worth it.

        • linkdd 7 minutes ago
          Just ask the slop machine to translate the binary to every platform.
  • zerr 4 minutes ago
    More like custom UI components. Native would have been if you had wrapped e.g. Cocoa NSButton on macOS and Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.Button on WinUI.
  • wg0 38 minutes ago
    Looks like ShadCN. That too in C. It's really really elegant.

    EDIT: It's immediate mode.

  • zerr 11 minutes ago
    Can you please prompt your agent to generate a C++ binding?
  • CrzyLngPwd 11 minutes ago
    Looks lovely, but without long term support and hostory, I wouldn't touch it with someone else's long stick.
  • saidnooneever 1 hour ago
    this looks really sweet actually. didnt dig into the backing code yet but the examples look really nice and clean to implement a UI with. well done.
  • annoyingnoob 7 minutes ago
    CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information.
  • all2 38 minutes ago
    The acronym collision is entertaining. I now want to use CUI to mark up my CUI.
  • skydhash 26 minutes ago
    This looks like built by someone raised exclusively on web and touch technologies, forgetting that both are the results of constraints. The web was not meant to be a UI platforms and have poor primitives, and touch devices lack precise positioning and

    Take the chips and rating as an example

    https://yappologistic.github.io/CUI/#/c/chips-and-rating

    It’s purely aesthetic as functionality (and ux) wise, chips are not different from checkbox with labels and rating is just a discrete slider.

    And as I thought, you can see the duplicate code for switch and checkbox here.

    https://github.com/yappologistic/CUI/blob/f1202e6d98cdc297f9...

    People do need to differentiate between UX primitives and something that just looks different.

  • cincinnatus 25 minutes ago
    Shame to put effort into encouraging more C code. All C code needs to be torn out by the roots. I don't care how carefully crafted it is and how many Fable passes have been done, it is inherently unsafe.